Комментарий к Йешайау 43:14

Because of you, I sent [you] to Babylon Jonathan paraphrases: Because of your sins I exiled you to Babylon.

שלחתי I was sent.¹⁶A. V., I have sent. Some think that the first person I refers to the prophet; but I am of opinion that God is speaking, because this verse begins, Thus saith the Lord, and the next verse, I am the Lord, The meaning of the phrase is: I have come so hastily, as if I were sent.¹⁷I. E. seems to have read שֻׁלַּחְתּׅי instead of שׁׅלַּחְתּׅי adopted in our printed Bibles. A very learned man in Spain conjectures, that the Divine Glory,¹⁸The angels, according to I. E., being the uncorporeal first emanation from the divine Glory, are also called הכבוד the divine glory. the same heavenly prince of Israel^18aComp. Dan. 10:20. that has been sent to Babylon to redeem Israel, is speaking to the prophet.

and I lowered them all with oars Heb. וְהוֹרַדְתִּי בָרִיחִים. Jonathan renders: And I lowered with oars (בִּמְשׁוֹטִין), all of them. מְשׁוֹטִין denotes the wood that guides the ship and straightens it out.